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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices … play a critical part in food consumption, with rising prices affecting poor households the most. Although public food …
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food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected … population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the …
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markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to … progressively over the century. By 2030, the impact of climate change on food consumption is moderate but already twice as large in … a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
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evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework …
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an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this …The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using … subjective indicator of food security remained the same or even improved, seemingly owing to a combination of strong economic …
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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …
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finds some evidence that food consumption patterns and nutritional outcomes may be affected by livestock ownership in rural …
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This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty …
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the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that negative rainfall shocks decrease consumption, in particular food … consumption. Rainfall below one standard deviation of its long-run average causes food consumption to decrease by about 4 percent …
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